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/ˈeɪljənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Alienate v. t. (past & past part. alienated; pres. part. alienating)

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; with from. "The errors which... alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart." "The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present."

noun

Alienate n. A stranger; an alien. (Obs.)

adjective

Alienate adj. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from. "O alienate from God."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alienate" Quotes from Famous Books

... do you trade at all?" Answer: In the first visits that we make we should at once alienate all the goodwill of the people from us unless we so far complied with their desire to get iron tools, or to trade more or less with them. As soon as I can I give presents to three or four leading men, and then let the buying curiosities be carried on by the crew and others; ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... so fully developed. Trade implied private property and the idea of individual possession. The estate belonging to a person was his absolutely, to deal with pretty much as he would. He had the same right to alienate it as he had to increase it. In a commercial community there could be no ...

— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

... wrong have I contrived, what iniurie To alienate thy liking so from mee? If thou be she whom sometime thou didst faine, And bearest not the name of friend in vaine, Let not thy borrowed guise of altred kinde Alter the wonted liking of thy minde, But ...

— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various

... the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employees retaliated by declaring a strike; the example was followed by the Pennsylvania men. In order to alienate the sympathy of the general public and to have a pretext for suppressing the strike with armed force, the railroads, it is quite certain, instigated riots at Martinsburg, W. Va., and at Pittsburg. Troops were called out and the so-called mobs were fired on, resulting in a number of ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... they had to take up the sad refrain so oft repeated: "We have found the Old Adam too strong for the young Melancthon." Dr. Moore was a man that, when he knew he was in the right, pushed his enterprises with such a rigorous purpose as sometimes to alienate from himself men who might have been won by a more complaisant temper. His stay in Kansas was limited. The dwelling in which he lived was struck by lightning, and Bro. and Sister Moore were seriously injured. From these injuries Sister Moore has never fully recovered. With broken health she became ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

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